"They go low, we go high", Li Chenggang, an assistant minister at China's Ministry of Commerce, said at a forum in Beijing with the City of Chicago, employing a Democratic Party slogan popularized by former first lady Michelle Obama in 2016, according to Bloomberg (porous paywall).

Beijing said China's surplus with the USA hit an all-time high of US$28.97 billion last month, while exports to the country hit a record US$42.62 billion.

China has also been the largest export market for the least developed countries in the world, absorbing one-fifth of the exports of the world's least developed countries. Beijing criticized the measure but has yet to say how it might respond.

China's trade surplus was larger than expected in June at $41.6bn from $24.92bn in May, notes the research team at TD Securities.

The European Union will open an annual meeting with China on Monday, looking to fend off overtures for an anti-US alliance as China seeks a European counterbalance to U.S. tariffs.

Since entering the WTO, Wang said, China has been a staunch supporter of the multilateral trading system. That leaves about $80 billion for penalty tariffs after previous increases either imposed or threatened on a total of $50 billion of USA goods are counted.

Gao Feng says China hopes American companies do more to lobby the USA government and work hard to safeguard their own interests. They criticize President Donald Trump's tactics but share USA complaints about Beijing's industrial policy and market barriers.

"To round out the picture China's trade surplus with the European Union grew on a 12m basis, rising to $131.8bn, while China maintained a deficit with Japan of $-33.bn and the surplus with the rest of Asia continued to narrow, falling to $65.8bn, its lowest since July 2014". "Import growth is set to slow further as domestic headwinds from property controls and weaker investment spending continue to intensify".

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The South-African and the American started the match at 1pm local and well delayed the start of the second semi-final. Anderson will play again in the final on Sunday - hopefully there, a victor will be decided in four sets or less.

He said the summit is important as the start of a dialogue, not only about election meddling but a range of issues. The US president left after another round of golf at his Turnberry resort on Sunday after a four-day visit.

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Since the breakup started, the country now known as Serbia has qualified for four World Cups, including this year's tournament. We had the belief that we could go all the way and you can never be sure if this kind of opportunity will come round again.

And Pacquiao quickly gave credit to bosom buddy Buboy Fernandez, who took over the coaching rein from Freddie Roach. Everything is under control", said the 39-year-old Pacquiao. "I came out smoking hot".

The administration said the new levies are a response to China's decision to retaliate against the first round of US tariffs. Dennis Shea has accused China of causing "serious harm" to WTO partners by failing to live up to free-trade principles.

On Friday he rephrased his account, saying that he had given "a suggestion" to May over Brexit, not advice. He said "the deal she is striking is a much different deal than the one the people voted on".

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